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Bulletins and News Discussion from September 23rd to September 29th, 2024 - The War In The North (hexbear.net)

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Image is of a Hezbollah missile attack on a military camp west of Jenin.

The situation between Hezbollah and Israel is rapidly escalating, with massive bombing campaigns on southern Lebanon by Israel predominantly on civilians (as the tunnels in South Lebanon are mostly unreachable to the Zionists, just like in Gaza), while Hezbollah and its allies respond with missile attacks predominantly on Israeli military facilities. Israel is spreading an evacuation order to the residents of southern Lebanese villages while also bombing their routes of escape and civilian infrastructure, similar to a terror tactic used widely in Gaza.

Northern Israel is currently under military censorship to hide their losses, so we get very little information other than what the Resistance provides and what videos and images get through the censors.

I don't know if Israel will dare a ground incursion soon, but it seems fairly likely in the coming days or weeks.

Please check out the HexAtlas!

The bulletins site is here!
The RSS feed is here.
Last week's thread is here.

Israel-Palestine Conflict

If you have evidence of Israeli crimes and atrocities that you wish to preserve, there is a thread here in which to do so.

Sources on the fighting in Palestine against Israel. In general, CW for footage of battles, explosions, dead people, and so on:

UNRWA reports on Israel's destruction and siege of Gaza and the West Bank.

English-language Palestinian Marxist-Leninist twitter account. Alt here.
English-language twitter account that collates news.
Arab-language twitter account with videos and images of fighting.
English-language (with some Arab retweets) Twitter account based in Lebanon. - Telegram is @IbnRiad.
English-language Palestinian Twitter account which reports on news from the Resistance Axis. - Telegram is @EyesOnSouth.
English-language Twitter account in the same group as the previous two. - Telegram here.

English-language PalestineResist telegram channel.
More telegram channels here for those interested.

Russia-Ukraine Conflict

Examples of Ukrainian Nazis and fascists
Examples of racism/euro-centrism during the Russia-Ukraine conflict

Sources:

Defense Politics Asia's youtube channel and their map. Their youtube channel has substantially diminished in quality but the map is still useful.
Moon of Alabama, which tends to have interesting analysis. Avoid the comment section.
Understanding War and the Saker: reactionary sources that have occasional insights on the war.
Alexander Mercouris, who does daily videos on the conflict. While he is a reactionary and surrounds himself with likeminded people, his daily update videos are relatively brainworm-free and good if you don't want to follow Russian telegram channels to get news. He also co-hosts The Duran, which is more explicitly conservative, racist, sexist, transphobic, anti-communist, etc when guests are invited on, but is just about tolerable when it's just the two of them if you want a little more analysis.
Simplicius, who publishes on Substack. Like others, his political analysis should be soundly ignored, but his knowledge of weaponry and military strategy is generally quite good.
On the ground: Patrick Lancaster, an independent and very good journalist reporting in the warzone on the separatists' side.

Unedited videos of Russian/Ukrainian press conferences and speeches.

Pro-Russian Telegram Channels:

Again, CW for anti-LGBT and racist, sexist, etc speech, as well as combat footage.

https://t.me/aleksandr_skif ~ DPR's former Defense Minister and Colonel in the DPR's forces. Russian language.
https://t.me/Slavyangrad ~ A few different pro-Russian people gather frequent content for this channel (~100 posts per day), some socialist, but all socially reactionary. If you can only tolerate using one Russian telegram channel, I would recommend this one.
https://t.me/s/levigodman ~ Does daily update posts.
https://t.me/patricklancasternewstoday ~ Patrick Lancaster's telegram channel.
https://t.me/gonzowarr ~ A big Russian commentator.
https://t.me/rybar ~ One of, if not the, biggest Russian telegram channels focussing on the war out there. Actually quite balanced, maybe even pessimistic about Russia. Produces interesting and useful maps.
https://t.me/epoddubny ~ Russian language.
https://t.me/boris_rozhin ~ Russian language.
https://t.me/mod_russia_en ~ Russian Ministry of Defense. Does daily, if rather bland updates on the number of Ukrainians killed, etc. The figures appear to be approximately accurate; if you want, reduce all numbers by 25% as a 'propaganda tax', if you don't believe them. Does not cover everything, for obvious reasons, and virtually never details Russian losses.
https://t.me/UkraineHumanRightsAbuses ~ Pro-Russian, documents abuses that Ukraine commits.

Pro-Ukraine Telegram Channels:

Almost every Western media outlet.
https://discord.gg/projectowl ~ Pro-Ukrainian OSINT Discord.
https://t.me/ice_inii ~ Alleged Ukrainian account with a rather cynical take on the entire thing.

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

Has schrodinger's cat finally been revealed? Has this become ww3 or will we find that “nothing ever happens???” Tune in next week as…

For real though, is something happening? Hezbollah and the entity have been trading blows for months… what are the chances that this would actually be a prelude to some sort of invasion?

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Hezbollah In defense of Lebanon and its people, our fighters bombed the Megiddo military airport west of Afula with a barrage of Fadi-1 and Fadi-2 missiles.

bombed the Ramat David airbase with a barrage of Fadi-2 missiles.

targeted the Amos base (the main base for transportation and logistical support in the northern region) with a salvo of Fadi 1 missiles.

targeted the explosives factory in the Zikhron area, which is 60 km from the border, with a salvo of Fadi 2 missiles.

Hezbollah confirms top commander in ‘full health’ after latest Israeli strike on Beirut

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 2 weeks ago

Only 2k comments, this clearly has been a slow week aware

[–] [email protected] 49 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

imagine you're fighting ia war and mid battle you check your hone to see AI generated pics of it, crazy

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Republicans are mad at Ukraine supporting dems and writing angry letters to zelensky

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

In completely unremarkable news in finland, the pillars of the parliament house where painted red by climate activists this is incredibly funny and the boomers are breaking down in tears shidding farting and cuming all over everywhere. i-cant

on an absolutely unrelated note this is a statement by our smaller ML communist party concerning the next years state budget

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The bourgeois government's budget continues to flounder

The bourgeois government led by the Coalition Party and the True Finns has approved next year's state budget. In it, the government continues its policy of cutting and diminishing the economy, with all working people paying the price.

In September, the government will submit its budget proposal to Parliament, which will approve it at the end of December. Parliament would have a chance to reject the worst of the whiplashes, but that will not happen under right-wing rule.

The draft budget is worth around €88 billion, with a deficit of more than €12 billion. It will be covered by taking on more government debt.

Taxation, direct and indirect, will be increased across the board. The biggest tax increases will come from municipal taxes, with half of the municipalities already raising their taxes.

More money will go to the army, NATO, the police and the shooting ranges - the whole machinery of violence. The rising costs of militarism in recent years will continue next year.

The army will spend €6.5 billion next year, an increase of half a billion on this year. Just two elections ago, the corresponding expenditure was less than 3 billion

The new cost of NATO is almost €100 million. That's an increase of 67 million on this year.

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (6 children)

Rapid Fuckification - Hurricane HELLene expected to DOMINATE the fascist state of Florida as a cat 3-4 storm.

timmy-pray Humiliate Der Santis.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Ron Atlantis

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (5 children)

PBOC really needs a purge, filled with Neoliberals who believe in loanable funds bs. Lowering reserve requirements has never made any difference, it doesn't free up money for lending.

Even if it was assumed lowering reserve requirements would "free up" money for lending, what if people don't want a loan? What if they think they won't be able to pay back? What if they think the interest rate is too high and are waiting for lower rates?

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

What's your estimate on p(nuke,t<=5 years)?

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (8 children)

Youth org of Green Party Germany: The complete leadership council (10 people) quit job and party.

Link to the resignation letter (CW: reddit)

They say they have been in opposition to the party leadership/majority on various issues, like the 100 bn "special fund" for the Bundeswehr, that new brown coal mine, and when they took away the rights of asylum seekers.

Seems like they're planning on creating a new radlib organization.

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 3 weeks ago (17 children)

Zelensky says he doubts Brazil and China's 'real interest' in mediating peace deal: 'They will no longer have power at our expense'

The Ukrainian president questioned Brazil and China's role in the negotiations between Ukraine and Russia during his speech at the UN General Assembly on Wednesday. He also said that Moscow was planning a coordinated invasion of Ukrainian nuclear power plants.

“You will not increase your powers at the expense of Ukraine,” he said during his speech.

Since last year, President Lula has been saying that he wants to mediate a dialog between Russia and Ukraine to end the war, including a specific peace plan.

Chinese President Xi Jinping has also expressed his willingness to mediate a peace negotiation between the two sides. At the end of April, he spoke to Zelensky by telephone for the first time since the start of the war and said that he had put forward a proposal.

The Ukrainian, however, says that he will not negotiate with Moscow as long as Vladimir Putin is Russian president, and demands an immediate ceasefire. In May this year, at a meeting with the President's special adviser for international affairs, former Brazilian Chancellor Celso Amorim, in Kiev, Zelensky said that the only possible peace plan to end the war in his country is the Ukrainian one.

Zelensky had already accused Brazil of prioritizing alliances with Russia (in reference to BRICS). Lula denied “defending Putin” and said that “I have no side, my side is peace”.

In his speech to the UN General Assembly on Wednesday, the Ukrainian leader said he would not accept an “imposed peace”.

“We Ukrainians will never accept that. We will never accept that. Why would anyone in the world believe that such a brutal colonial past, which has no continuity today, could be imposed on Ukraine now?”

In his speech, Zelensky also accused Russia of planning a coordinated attack on Ukraine's nuclear power plants.

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Some of the damage in the southern suburbs of Dahieh in Beirut.

Extremely civilian area.

https://tankie.tube/w/dCzneoFLkv2syco9ZecmJt

[–] [email protected] 48 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Missiles over Deir Hanna

https://files.catbox.moe/hzqnup.mp4

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Wildfires in Ecuador’s Capital Force Dozens of Families to Evacuate - Telesur English

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The fire started in a rural area and quickly spread across different fronts, reaching the urban core of Quito.

At least two firefighters have been injured, and more than one hundred families have been evacuated from their homes due to the fires that broke out on Tuesday afternoon in Quito, the capital of Ecuador. Authorities do not believe they will be able to extinguish the fires before Wednesday.

In a joint press conference with provincial and national authorities, Quito Mayor Pabel Muñoz explained that the shelter system of the San José Patronage has been activated to assist the evacuated families.

The evacuation was carried out as a precaution since, so far, there have been few impacts on homes and infrastructure. No fatalities have been reported.

The fire started in a rural area and quickly spread across different fronts, reaching the urban core of the Ecuadorian capital and extending to the Metropolitan Park. Around 215 members of the Quito Fire Department are battling the flames, Muñoz said, adding that 440 people have been mobilized in various emergency zones.

The National Police have deployed over 1,600 officers, and the Armed Forces have sent around 180 soldiers, while the Ecuadorian Air Force (FAE) has ordered two helicopters to join the fire-fighting efforts, although they will not be operational until Wednesday morning.

Between five and seven helicopters will be involved in water-dumping operations over the flames, Muñoz said, urging citizens to avoid driving their vehicles as much as possible to facilitate the movement of emergency services.

Paola Pabon, prefect of the Pichincha province, whose capital is Quito, assured that the local government’s machinery, as well as health, veterinary, and social assistance brigades and units, will be at the service of the Municipality during this emergency. A series of similar fires in Quito in recent days, apparently set deliberately, led to the arrest of two people who were placed in preventive detention.

On Tuesday, the national government suspended the electricity cuts that had been scheduled in Quito as part of the rationing measures introduced last week, due to the severe drought that has hindered the normal operation of the country’s main hydroelectric plants.

Ecuadorian goverment collapsing. But you won't see the western media reporting on this because Noboa is a US puppet. Meanwhile they torture former VP Jorge Glas and continue their lawfare against former president Rafael Correa, while kicking out the Chinese investors from their country. Colombia stopped their export of energy to Ecuador, and I believe they still hate Peru, so no energy from Peru.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 2 weeks ago

Is genocide Joe still alive?

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Israel says it will not agree to ceasefire in Lebanon until Hezbollah disarms Al Jazeera - 07:40 GMT

Israel’s Foreign Minister Israel Katz says the government will not agree to a ceasefire in Lebanon, according to Kan, Israel’s public broadcaster.

“The only way that is acceptable for Israel to stop the fire is to move Hezbollah north of the Litani and disarm it,” Katz was reported as saying.

The implementation of all UN Security Council resolutions is also required for a ceasefire in Lebanon, he added.

“As long as these do not occur, Israel will continue its actions to ensure the security of the citizens of Israel and the return of the residents of the north to their homes.”

Katz added that Nasrallah’s assassination was one of the most justified countermeasures Israel has ever carried out, and that he was planning more attacks against Israel.

Obviously, the entity has been emboldened by the assassination. I hope this snuffs out any illusions of a negotiated ceasefire held by the Iranians and other forces in the region. The war will only end with the dismantling of the Resistance, or the dismantling of the entity.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 3 weeks ago

Central & West Africa have received terrible amounts of rain this year.

UNICEF responding to severe flooding in West and Central Africa affecting 4 million people

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Severe flooding across West and Central Africa has hit an estimated 4 million people so far this year, many of them children, displacing at least 500,000 people and destroying more than 300,000 homes.

The flooding ranges from Liberia to Nigeria and across Mali, Niger and Chad, with central Africa also affected. In Northeast Nigeria, a burst dam this week has added further to displacement with an estimated 40 per cent of the town of Maiduguri flooded, affecting up to 200,000 people. Other dams in the sub-region are also under pressure with the heavy rainfall, with fears that any similar dam breaks would lead to even greater displacement.

Floods in the region have already damaged at least 61 schools and 13 health centres. Last year’s flooding, which was also severe, had affected 692,000 people in the region by this point in the year, and eventually affected 4.5 million.

In Chad, one of the worst-hit countries, torrential rains have caused flooding throughout the country since late July, with nearly 1.5 million people affected already, 145 deaths and the destruction of 70,000 houses, according to the government. The flooding has also destroyed bridges and roads. Wadi river valleys are full and difficult to cross, adding to the complexity of delivering aid into Sudan’s Darfur region.

16 out of 24 countries in West and Central Africa are among the 30 countries with the biggest climate change risk for children, according to UNICEF’s Children’s Climate Risk Index.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

https://resistancenews.org/2024/09/24/the-exhilaration-of-first-strikes-in-lebanon-israel-repeats-the-mistakes-of-2006/

An article looking back at the last few days by the editor-in-chief of Al-Akhbar, translated by Resistance News. According to wikipedia, Al-Akhbar is a left wing, anti-zionist, leaning pro-syrian Lebanese daily newspaper. They also call it a semi-tabloid without a source, which makes me think that it reports facts that some wikipedia editor doesn’t like. So not to replace analysis with contrarianism, but i don’t feel compelled to verify further. Resistance News is a good source. The mention of Western and comprador nations trying to stir up Syrian and Lebanese groups “in an uprising to demand a ceasefire from the Resistance” is interesting, since I haven’t personally seen anything about that before now on my side of the language barrier. The latter paragraphs underscore one of the lessons of post-Vietnam military thought: the USA (and friends) have developed a theory rich and deeply analytical conception of how best to apply massive terror bombing and mechanized shock and awe against opponents without air defense. They have now taken the existence of complex theory as evidence that this must work, which is a blindness that can be exploited. Unfortunately, this blindness does not change the mass death and destruction the “Western way of war” will bring.